More Information on Numbered
Locations on Map BelowSouthwest Portion of Town of Hamburg - 1866 (click
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(provided by Gary Pericak)

1.
Elliott Stewart was an 1835 graduate of Cazenovia
Seminary where he majored in legal studies and was an attorney
in Buffalo from 1846-1853. Due to poor health, he retired to his
farm on a large tract of land at the mouth of the 18-Mile Creek in the
Town of Hamburgh. Here he carried out notable experiments in the
care
and feeding of animals, published several books and became a
non-resident professor at Cornell University. His inventions
included a "self-cleaning stable" and his famous octagonal
barns. He was also a member of the school board and the
Lake View postmaster from 1872-1885. See http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/TOC-FormativeYears.pdf

North of #1 is the location of Idlewood
at the mouth of Eighteen-mile Creek. It was
organized in 1882 by the Idlewood
Association, a group of wealthy attorneys from Buffalo who had a
summer residences there, including Charles
Daniels who founded the Buffalo Law School and was a justice
on the New York Supreme Court and a US Congressman. The Erie
County Bar Association was formed in Idlewood in 1886 at the home of
Franklin Locke. See fork
from Idlewood found on the
Internet

2. Jacob
F. Schoellkopf was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1819
and came to the US in 1841. He settled in Buffalo in 1844 and
established a leather business on Mohawk Street. He purchased
the tannery (originally built by Hiram Jones) in North Evans in 1853, improved
the complex to include a sawmill and operated this business for 20
years, often working in the tannery along side his employees.
His son Jacob II owned a large estate which was called Seeheim
near Lake Erie from which Schoellkopf Rd. gets
its name. See
http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/TOC-FormativeYears.pdf

4.
Versailles Plank Rd. which originally
ran from the Hamburg Turnpike(where
Pleasant Ave. now meets Rt. 5) to Versailles,
NY in Cattaraugus Co.was built around 1850
by Levi Brown, Rodney Smith and
John Borland, Directors of the Hamburg-Versailles Plank Rd
Company. See History
of Versailles Plank Rd.

5. One of
the 1st settlers of the Lake View area was Ebenezer Ames who traveled
from Vermont sometime before 1807 and built a house on North Creek Rd.
on a bluff overlooking 18-Mile
Creek which the Ames family occupied for many years.
Jesse Ames kept a diary and amassed a large collection of old photos
which provide an invaluable history of the area. See http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/TOC-FormativeYears.pdf

6. The
original location of Shaleton School #4 was on Pleasant Ave. close to
the Buffalo and Erie RR crossing and Acme Shale & Brick Co.
In 1921 a new building was built on Heltz Rd. which still stands
today. See History
of Frontier Central School District(pg. 23)

7. The original location of Wanakah School #5 was a log cabin on
the Lake Erie side of the Hamburg Turnpike (now Rt. 5) built in
1795. This was replaced by a brick building in 1845 in
Cloverbank (on the Kelderhouse farm) and later by a one-room structure
in 1900 which was enlarged at various times and served the area until
1993. See History
of Frontier Central School District (pg. 25)

8. The original building which later became Amsdell School #9 was
built around 1810 (on the John Sly farm) near where Amsdell Rd. meets
Pleasant Ave. This was replaced with another structure in 1868
which was enlarged at various times and served as a school until
1958. See History
of Frontier Central School District (pg. 13)